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JULES FRYDMANE, or PARIS, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR TO soouirit' ANONYME DES APPAREILs DE ooNTRoLE ET; DE COMPTABILITE AUTOMATIQUE, or PARIS, FRANCE, A FIRM. r

APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING MONETARY TRANSACTIONS.

SIBECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,670, dated September 8, 1903.

Application filed September 21, 1901. SerialNo. 76,027- No model.)

T0 at whom i may onc n: double ticket. The impression of the total is Be it known that I, JULES FRYDMANE, a citiseparated from the previousimpr'essions by a zen of the Republic of France, residing at wider space than usual. Paris, France, have invented Improvements Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a 5 in Apparatus forRegisteringMonetary Transsection, corresponding to the line A B of Fig. actions, of which the following is a specifica- 2, of an example of apparatus according to tion. this invention. Fig. 2isacorresponding plan. This invention relates to apparatus for reg- Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are sections corresponding, istering monetary transactions which is exrespectively, to the line 0 D, to the line E F, IO tremely simple in construction, regard being and to the line G H of Fig. 2, the direction of had to the large number of operations inview being in each case that indicated by the volved. When one revolution is imparted to arrow in Fig. 2. Figs. 6, 7, 8, and 9 are seea crank, these operations are effected autotionscorresponding,respectively,to thedotted inaticallyin their proper order and with great lines I J, K L, M N, and O P of Fig. 4.. Fig. 15 certainty. 10 is a section partly corresponding to the Apparatus according to this invention efline Q R of Fig. 2. Fig. 11 is a section partly fects the following results: corresponding to the dotted line S T of Fig. First. Thedivision ofthe comineroialtrans- 3. Figs. 12, 13, and 14 are respectively an actions into two categories, debit and credit, elevation partly in section, a plan, and a 20 and the printing or registering of the said transverse section of one of the composingtransactions, according to their nature, on the wheels, which is moved by the operator for left or the right of a record-strip divided into the purpose of composing the amount of a two columns. debit or a credit and of putting the appara- Second. The delivery for any transaction, tus into a position to work. Fig. 14. shows 25 whatever it maybe, ofa double ticket. Upon at the same time the two printing-disks coneach portion of the ticket the apparatus prints nected to the composing-wheel shown, one of the amount of the sum recorded, the designathe printing-disks being adapted to print the tion of the employee who efiects the transrecord-strip and the other to print the double action, the number of the transactions, and tickets. Fig. 15 is an end view of the group 0 the full date. In the case of credit transacof printing disks with single characters.

tions the apparatus in addition prints upon Fig. 16 is an end view of the group of printthe double ticket letters'or signs indicating ing-disks with double characters. Figs. 17 the nature of the transaction. All these inand 18 are respectively a longitudinal section dications, excepting the date and the number and a plan of the carriage for the record- 5 of the transactions, are reproduced on the restrip. Fig. 19 is a view showing separately cord-strip. several of the parts of the adding device. 83 Third. A visible indication of the correct Figs. 20, 21, and 22 are sections similar to ness or otherwise of the setting of the appa- Figs. 1, 4, and .5, but showing the parts after ratus and facility forthe immediate correcoperation. Fig. 23 is a view similar to Fig. 40 tion of the setting in case of error. 22, but showing the parts in other positions.

Fourth. An indication, visible both to the Fig. 24: is a partial section'corresponding to operator and to the purchaser, of the amount Fig. 8, but showing the parts after operation.

'ot' the transaction recorded, which remains Fig.25illustratesdiagrammaticallytheworkvisible until the next transaction is recorded. ing of the composing-wheels. Fig. 26 shows 5 Fifth. The adding up of the amount of the separately a portion of the registering-strip debit transactions recorded by the apparatus with several examples of impressions made 93 and printed upon the left-hand portion of the thereon. Figs. 27, 28, and 29 show three record-strip and the printing at any moment double ticket-s which have been printed by of this total .upon the said strip and upon a the apparatus and of which the contents are sponding composingwheels.

repeated on the registering-strip; and Figs. 30 and 31 are respectively an elevation and a plan of the adding-lever. Fig. 32 is a 1ongitudinal section, and Fig. 33 is a cross-section, of the rollers 77 and 78.

As shown in Figs. 2 and 8, there are in the apparatus, arranged side by side and loosely mounted on a transverse stationary shaft a, supported by the side frames 1) and c of the machine, a certain number of wheels (herein called composing-wheels) whereby the apparatus can beset. Each of these wheels cornprises a ring d, connected to a boss e by means of a single arm f. Its periphery has circular recesses g, Figs. 12, 13, and 14, triangular notches 71, teeth 1', and a smooth portionj. The set of circular recesses and the set of triangular notches, which in the example are ten each, subtend equal angles.

Each of the circular recesses g is provided with a number, letter, or other sign corresponding to the position of the wheel to which it belongs. Thus for the wheels (seven in number) indicated by the reference-letter k the circular recesses are provided with numbers from 0 to 9, and for those (two in number) indicated by the reference-letter m the circular recesses are provided with letters orinitials, and for the single disk indicated by the reference-letter n the circular recesses are provided with signs Ru, Vcr, or the like, corresponding to the expressions Sold and Credit sale, &c.that is to say, to

transactions known in business under the nameof Credits or payments from the cashbox. It will be seen at once that the wheel or, is engaged by a pin 0, that enters a hole 19 in a toothed wheel g, which is fixed to the composing-wheel in question.

To each of the composing-wheelsthere is rigidly fixed a toothed wheel q, engaging with a pinion 1', whose spindle s, which is parallel to the fixed shaft a, carries at its ends, outside the side frames Z) and 0, two pinions if and u, respectively in engagement with toothed wheels 1) and w, loosely mounted on parts of the fixed shaft a outside the side frames of the apparatus. The toothed wheels 4; and w are respectively fixed to thin disks as and y, on the peripheries of which there are formed characters reproducing exactly and in the same order the numbers, letters, or other signs of the circular recesses in the corre- The characters of the disks m are single, Fig. 15, while those of the disks y are double, Fig. 16. Each coinposing-wheel is therefore in engagement with two disks 0c and y, (hereinafter called printing-disks,) of which one is intended for printing the registering-strip and the other for printing the double tickets, for which it must have double characters. The printing-disks w and y form two distinct groups, one of which is located at the right hand and the other at the left hand of the group of coinposing-wheels.

The spindles s, that connect the disks with the oomposing-wheels,are arranged circularly around the fixed shaft a and in such a way as to leave a sufficient space for the movement of the arms f'be tween the outside spindles s to accord with the angle subtended by the group of circular recesses g or that of the triangular notches 7t.

When the apparatus is at rest, the composing-wheels are in such positions that their armsf abut against a fixed bar 2, arranged in the interior of the wheels, and that the first of the circular recesses of each composing-wheel is located opposite to a fixed transverse bar 5. This bar serves as an abutment for the finger of the operator while operating the composing-wheels. With the triangular notches h of each of the composing-wheels there engages a detent 2, mounted on a transverse shaft 3 and acted upon by a spring adapted to hold it in engagement with the corresponding notch. The object of the detents 2 is to insure that the composing-wheels will remain in the positions in which they are placed by the operator. The detents 2 are triangular, and they have surfaces against which there bears at a certain moment an cecentric catch 4, which acts on all the detents andis fixed on a transverse shaft. The function of the catch 4 will be described later. The teeth i engage at a certain moment with the wheels of a suitable adding device.

On the fixed shaft a of the composing-wheels there are mounted loosely arms 5, connected together by means of a transverse bard and connected by links 7 to levers 8, that oscillate on the shaft 9 and are provided with rollers 10, which bear, under the influence of spring 11, on earns 12, keyed on the cam-shaft 13. The bar 6 (herein called the resettingbar) occupies when at rest the position shown in Fig. 4:. It is adapted to act, under the influence of the cams 12, on the arms f of the composing-wheels, that have been more or less moved in setting the apparatus, and to return them all, no matter in what positions they may be, to their normal positions.

The record-strip, Fig. 26, isa strip of paper 14, on the left-hand portion of which there is printed in columns the debits or receipts, while the right-hand portion is reserved for the payment-s or credit transactions, which are also placed in columns. The record-strip is mounted on a carriage, Figs. 5, 7, 17, and 18, located below the printing-disks so. It is unwound from a reel 15, passes over a tension device 16, over an oscillating table 17, and under a feed-roll 18, and is finally wound on a reel 19. v

The supply-reel 15 is mounted on pivots between two side frames 20 and 21. The tension device 16is mounted to rotate at the ends of two levers 22, which oscillate on the said side frames.

The feed-roll 18 is mounted on ashaft that rotates in the side frames 20 and 21 and of which one of the ends carries a ratchet-wheel 23, with which a pawl 24 engages at the proper IIO time for the purpose of rotating the roll 18 and feeding the record-strip.

The winding-up reel 19 is mounted at the ends of levers 25, which are mounted on the side frames 20 and 21 to oscillate and of which the free arms are provided with a counterweight 26, which causes the reel 19 to bear on the rotating feed-roll 18, whereby the reel 19 is caused to rotate and wind up the recordstrip.

The oscillating table 17 is mounted on pivots 27 between the side frames 20 and 21. It is supported by a toggle-joint 28, connected at one end to the table 17 and fixed at the other end on the transverse shaft 29, which by its rotation atthe proper time causes the toggle-joint to move and raise the table in such a way as to press the strip of paper located thereon against the printing-disks w. The table 17 has an extension 30, to the outer end of which there is connected a pawl 24, so that each time the table oscillates the ratchetwheel 23 is moved forward for example, by one toothand thus effects the rotation of the feed-roll 18.

The side frames 20 and 21 of the carriage are suitably stayed in such a way as to form a rigid frame, and one of them, 21, carries sockets 31, which are mounted with slight friction on rods 32, rigidly attached to the side frame 0 of the apparatus. This method of mounting enables the carriage to be moved transversely, so as to subject to the action of the printing-disks :1; either the right-hand portion or theleft-hand portion of the registeringstrip that passes over the-oscillating table 17. It will be seen that the record-strip can receive from the printing-disks a: two columns of print, corresponding, for example, on the left hand to the debits and on the right hand to the credits.

The movement of the carriage of the record-strip is intimately connected with the liberation of the composing-wheel n, which contains the figures relating to the credits. It has been seen that the composing-wheel n is engaged when at rest by a pin 0, that passes through a hole 19 in the toothed wheel g, which is fiXed to the wheel in question. The pin 0 is guided by an arm 33, rigidly fixed to the shaft a, and is mounted on a lever 34, which is attached to a longitudinal shaft 35, which controls the apparatus at various points and has at the front of the apparatus a handle 36, which the operator moves to the right when he wishes to make a credit tion 38 and a counterfoil 39, separated by a line of perforations 40, which enables them to be detached, so that the counterfoil can be kept, for example, for the cash-box and the main portion be given away, for example, to the customer. These two parts are each printed with the same order-number and the same date and receive from the printing-disks y the same impression by reason of the double characters of the disks 3 The double tickets are made from a strip of cardboard which unwinds from a reel 42, Figs. 1, 2,'and 9, loosely mounted on a shaft 43, attached to the side frame I) of the apparatus. This strip of cardboard passes around guides 44, 45, and 46 and bears on tables 47 and 48 with lateral flanges and finally passes fixed shears 49, adapted to sever it into tickets of a certain length. The two tables 47 and 48 are respectively mounted on hinges 50 and 51 insuch a way as to oscillate in a manner similar to that of the table 17 of the registering-strip and to press at any desired time the strip of cardboard which they carry against the group of printing-disks y and against two other groups of disks 52 and 53. The pressing of the strip aga nst the disks y is effected by the table 48, and the pressing of it against the disks 52 and 53 is effected by the table 47.

The disks 52 and 53 (herein called datingdisks and numbering-disks, respectively) have, for the-same reasons as the printingdisks y, their characters doubled, so as to print in duplicate for the production of the double tickets. The disks 52 are partially r0 tated by hand in order to change the date, while the disks 53 are moved automatically after each impression in order to change the number.

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The tables 47 and 48 are supported, respectively, by toggle-joints 54 and 55, each connected at one end to the corresponding table and at the other end to a shaft 56 or 29, the latter being that on which is mounted the toggle-joint levers of the oscillating table 17 of the registering-strip.

The shafts 56 and 29 carry arms 57 and 58, connected by a link 59. The arm 57 is connected by a link 60 to a lever 61, that oscillates on a shaft 62 and of which the free end carries a roller 63 in engagement with a cam 64, mounted on a cam-shaft13. The cam 64 simultaneously operates the three oscillating tables 17, 47, and 48, and thereby prints the registering-strip and a double ticket. The printing of the date and the number of the transaction is not effected on a ticket at the same time as the impression is made on that ticket by the printing-disks y, but is effected in advance, which does not effect the result. The three oscillating tables 17, 47, and 48 are furthermore connected, respectively, by links 65, 66, and 67 to levers 68, 69, and 70, oscillating freely on the respective shafts of the corresponding disks ac, 52, 53, 'and y, On these levers 68, 69, and7O there are'mountied, respectively, inking'rollers 71,72, and 73,

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ireaevo which are acted upon by springs 203, so as to bear constantly on the peripheries of the disks to be inked. Each of the inking-rollers has flanges 200 bearing on sectors 201, whose peripheries are concentric with those of the disks a}, y, 52, or 58 and have depressions 202 such that the inking-rollers will bear only on the characters to be inked. (See Figs. 1, 2, 8, 20, and 23.) Furthermore, the levers 69 carry a pawl 74, which, as in the case of all numbering devices, acts at a certain time and in a known manner on the numbering-disks 53 for the purpose of effecting automatically at each upward movement of the table 47 the changing of the number of the transaction.

Between the tables 47 and 48 there are arranged two pairs of feed-rolls and 76 and 77 and 78, through which the strip of cardboard 41 is led. The rolls 75 and 78 have flanges 204 acting as lateral guides to the strip 41, which is pressed between the rolls 75 and 76 and the rolls 77 and 78, the rolls 76 and 77v being covered with suitable compressible material 205, as leather. The rolls 75 and 78 have central grooves, so that the strip is gripped only at the edges, and at these parts the rolls may each be provided with type 79 of the same composition orof a diiferent composition for the purpose of printing on the two surfaces of the strip any desired indicationfor example, an advertisement or address. This type is inked during the rotation of the rolls by means of inking-rollers 80 and 81, mounted loosely on spring-arms mounted on fixed pivots 82 and 83. The roll 78 is provided in addition to the type 79 with a toothed saw-blade 84, which has its edge parallel to the axis of the roll 78 and is adapted to perforate a strip of cardboard at each revolution of the roll 78. The circumference of .each feed-roll is equal to the length of a double ticket, and the lower rolls 76 and 78 are mounted eccentrically on their respective shafts and are each under the action of a counterweight for the purpose of exerting against the upper rolls 75 and 77 the pressure required for feeding the strip of cardboard. The upper rolls 75 and 77 are rotated from the cam-shaft 13 by means of transmission mechanism comprising a Geneva stop-wheel 85, having four concavities and operated by a roller 86 on the aforesaid cam 64. The wheel makes one-quarter of a revolution for each revolution of the camshaft 13. The wheel 85 is held during its stoppages by means of a disk 87, provided with a single concavity and acting in an ordinary manner, and it is rigidly connected to a toothed wheel 88, engaging with a pinion 89, to which is fixed a toothed wheel 90, engaging with pinions 91 and 92, which are fixed on the upper rolls 75 and 77, which are thereby moved at the same speed. In their turn the rolls 75 and 77 rotate the lower rolls 76 and 78, which are provided with pinions 93 and 94, respectively, in engagement with the pinions 91 and 92.

- The operation of making up by means of the composing-wheels the debit statements, which are reproduced by the printing-disks 00 and y, so as to be printed simultaneously on the record-strip and on the double tickets, also affects the adding device, and like statements are shown through openings, so as to be visible to the operator and the customers, in order to enable the latter to check the amount of their purchases and to enable the operator to verify the correctness of his manipulation.

The adding device, Figs. 4, 8, 9, and 19, comprises a certain number of wheels mounted between two plates 95, which are adapted to oscillate on a fixed transverse shaft 9 and of which one is provided with a roller 96 in contact with a cam 97, keyed on the camshaft 13 for the purpose of imparting to the entire mechanism of the adding device an oscillatory movement about the said fixed shaft 9. At the rear end of one of the plates there is an extension 98, constantly pulled by a spring 99 toward a rod 100, which serves as an abutment for the adding device in its position of rest. On the front parts of the plates 95 there is mounted a shaft 101, which can be moved longitudinally and on which there are mounted adding-wheels equal in number to the composing-wheels 76 and placed opposite thereto. Each of these wheels comprises a toothed pinion 102 and a ring 103, which is rigidly fixed to the pinion 102, and on the periphery of which there are provided numbers from 0 to 9, inclusive. When the apparatus is in a state of rest, the pinions 102 are held by spring-catches 104, mounted on a rod 105, which serves as a stay for the plates 95, and the pinions 102 are not in engagement with the toothed portions 1' of the composing-wheels opposite to which they are located. It is only when the adding device is moved forward that the engagement of these parts is effected. In an annular recess formed in the interior of each of the pinions 102 (except the right-hand one) there is a pin 106, which is fixed to the adjacent pinion and against which there may act a pin 107, fixed to the shaft 101, which is constantly pressed toward the left hand of the apparatus by a spring 108. The pins 106 and 107 are in engagement only when the shaft 101 is moved toward the right hand of the apparatus, as indicated by the arrow in Fig. 8. The movement in question is obtained by causing the shaft 101 to rotate by means of a key inserted into one or the other of the holes 109 and 110, formed at the ends of the shaft 101, and by means of a pin 111, which moves during this rotation on an inclined surface 112, formed at the end of a socket fixed on the corresponding plate 95. The key can enter the hole 109 or 110 only when it can pass through the opening 113 or 114, formed in the corresponding side frame of the apparatus. The hole 109 and the opening 113 are not opposite each other to admit the key ex- ICC cept when the pinions 102 of the adding device are in engagement with the toothed portions 2' of the composing-Wheels and when, moreover, the opening 113, which is normally covered by a shutter 115, has been uncovered for the purpose of enabling the operator to cause the composing-wheels to indicate the total registered by the adding device. The hole 110 and the opening 114 are opposite each other onlyv when the adding device is disengaged from the composing-Wheels, Fig. 8, and the operation of the key then has for object only to return the adding device to zero, for example, at the end of a day; but it must be understood that access to the opening 114 is permitted only to the chief of the establishment or his representative, as will be seen later. Furthermore, the shaft 101 can turn only in one direction in consequence of the spring-catch 116, arranged at one of its ends.

The pinions 102 of the adding device are constantlyin engagement with the same number of toothed wheels 117, which are mounted on the shaft 9, Figs. 4, 6, and 9, and are only transfer-wheels, which act each in combination with an oscillating finger 118 and a pivoted tooth 119, mounted on a cam-plate 120, for the purpose of transferring to the mechanism of the adding device, a unit produced by the total revolution of the wheel of an immediately inferior number. All the camplates 120 are keyed on the cam-shaft 13, and their mounting is such that their raised portions are presented successively to their respective fingers. It will be seen that the camplates 120, combined with the wheels 117, number only six, while the wheels 117 are seven in number, that the first finger 118 is mounted between the first and second Wheels 117 on the right hand, and that the first camplate 120, carrying a pivoted tooth 119, is on the same plane as the second toothed wheel 117. While in a state of rest the pivoted tooth 119, just mentioned, is outside the plane in question, Fig. 9. The finger 118 is provided with an enlarged portion which meets a pin 121 on the transfer-wheel 117 of the immediately lower order for the purpose of being depressed at each revolution of the wheel 117, just mentioned, while the finger 118 in question can be maintained in its highest and lowest posit-ions by means of a spring-catch 122. The finger 118 has a doubly-inclined surface, Fig. 19, which is turned toward the corresponding pivoted tooth and is adapted when this finger is depressed to cause the pivoted tooth to come into engagement with the wheel 117 of an immediately superior order and to cause its disengagement under the influence ofaspring which acts on one end thereof, Fig. 9. Itis during this engagement that the wheel 117 of immediately superior order just referred to is moved forward by one unit. When this has been done,the cam of the corresponding plate 120 comes into contact with the finger 118, which it raises and places in its normal position of rest ready to be again acted upon by the corresponding pin 121. This transfer mechanism is known and is described here only for the purpose of making the description of the registering apparatus complete. It will be understood that other mechanism adapted to produce the same effect can be substituted for that described.

The five wheels 117, located on the right of the apparatus, are respectively in engagement with other wheels 123, loosely mounted on an axle 124, which acts as a stay for the plates 95 of the adding device, Figs. t and 9. The wheels 123 merely connect the transferwheels 117 of the adding device with the mechanism that communicates with the visible numbers located on the upper part of the apparatus and operates them. Normally, however, the connection in question is interrupted, as will be seen from Fig. 4.

The visible indicating mechanism in question is composed of five wheels 125, mounted loosely on an axle 126 and respectively in engagement with the toothed wheels 127, to each of which there is fixed a ring 128, whose periphery is provided with numbers from O to 9, inclusive. The numbers on the rings 128 constitute the visible figures for the operator.

The visible figures for the customers are located on the peripheries of rings 129, fixed, respectively, to sleeves 130, mounted loosely on a transverse shaft 131, which is temporarily fixed. The rings 129, whose numbers are seen and read in a direction opposite to that of the numbers on the rings 128, must be located in an inverse order in relation to the rings 128; but since the movement is transmitted from the one to the other the inversion is produced by means of intermediate parts arranged on three separate shafts 132 and 133and in engagement, respectively, with toothed wheels fixed on the rings 128 and 129. These rings are held in position by springcatches 134, acting on the toothed wheels 127, u ntil the followingoperation of the apparatus, the rings 128 and 129 being returned to zero before indicating a fresh amount on its registration by the adding device.

The mechanism for returning the parts to zero comprises apin 135,keyed on the shaft 131 and in engagement with a toothed sector 136, loosely mounted on the shaft 9 and provided with an arm carrying a roller 137, which is adapted to come into contact with and be raised by the raised portion of a cam 138, mounted on the cam-shaft 13. Under the influence of this cam the sector 136 passes from its normal position, Fig. 5, during which the numbers of the preceding operation remain visible, into the position indicated by-Fig. 22. This movement has for object to cause the temporarily-fixed shaft 131 to rotate for the purpose of returning to zero all the rings 129, which are mounted thereon. This return is efiected by means of keys mounted on the shaft 131 and adapted to act on pins on the too sleeves of the rings 129 during the rotation of the shaft. The return to zero of the rings 129 causes that of the rings 128 by means of the connection hereinbefore mentioned. Under the shaft 131 there is located the transverse shaft 100, on which can oscillate a lever 139, called the adding-lever,

Figs. 5, 30, and 31. On the forward end of this lever there is a part 115, which acts as a shutter to cover normally the opening 113. At this end there is fixed a spring-handle 140, by means of which the adding-lever may be moved on its shaft 100 for the purpose, for example,ofuncoveringtheopening113. The handle passes through an arc shaped opening 141 in the side frame 0 of the apparatus, and it can be moved in this opening only when it is pulled outwardly, so as to disengage while compressing the spring a catch in engagement with a recess in the side frame.

On the rear portion of the adding-lever there is formed a hook 142, under which there can engage, when the adding-lever has been lowered for the purpose of uncovering the opening 113, Fig. 23, a catch 143, an extension of which is acted on by a cam 144, mounted on the cam-shaft 13.

The adding-lever 139 has an extension provided with a roller 145, which is adapted to come into contact with a cam146, mounted on the cam-shaft 13, and to raise automat ically the lever 139 when it has been depressed The lever 139 is also provided on the left hand side with a projection 147, adapted to act on a roller 148 on one of the plates 95 of the adding device for the purpose of oscillating the adding device about its shaft 9 on the depression of the lever 139, and thereby causing the'engagement of the adding device with the toothed parts 11 of the composing-wheels.

On the left hand of the adding device there is a roller 149, adapted to act when it is depressed on the inclined surface of an arm 150, fixed on the boss of the sector 136, which returns the visible figures to zero when the amount has been added up. The front portion of the adding-lever 139 is connected by means of a link 151 to a lever 152, which oscillates about a pivot on the side frame 0 of the apparatus and carries a pawl 153, which when the adding-lever is in its normal position, Fig. 5, is located above the ratchet-wheel 18 for feeding the record-strip, but which when the adding-lever is depressed, Fig. 23, comes into contact with the ratchet-wheel 18 and causes it to rotate by an angular distance approximately double that which it is moved normally by the pawl 24. Under these circumstances the forward movement of the record-strip is increased so as to separate clearly the impression which it can then receive from the printing-disks m from the preceding impressions.

It has already been seen that the longitudinal shaft 35 carries a handle 36, adapted to operate it and a lever 34. This shaft carries in addition an arm 154, connected by means of a link 155 to a lever 156, which oscillates about a fixed pin 157, mounted on the shaft 100, and carries a roller 158, which engages in an annular groove in the cam 97 for raising the adding device. The connection of the lever 156 with the arm 154 has for object when the operator moves the handle 36 toward the right to move the cam 97 in the same direction'i. 6., to release the cam 97 from its roller 96and thereby to suspend the action thereof with regard to the raising of the adding device. The cam 97 is provided with a lateral projection 159, Fig. 9, and with acircular projection provided with a flange 160, which is cut away opposite to the projection 159 from a point 161 to a point 162. When the apparatus is in its normal state, the flange is not opposite to the pin 163, fixed to the shaft 100, so that the projection 159 can, when the cam 97 is moved toward the right, come under the action of the pin 163. When the cam-shaft 13 is rotated, the projection 159 comes into contact with the fixed pin 163,which moves toward the left the cam 97,which is thus returned automatically into engagement with 4 the roller 96. At the same time by reason of the before-mentioned connection the handle 36 is also returned toward the left. The object of the flange 160 is to prevent the cam 97 from being accidentally disengaged from the fixed pin 163, and thereby to avoid mistakes in manipulation. As an additional safety device, the cam-shaft 13 is provided with a disk 164, which has in its periphery a notch 165, opposite to which there is a catch 166, fixed to a lever 169, which oscillates at 168 and has fixed to it a horizontal arm 167, which extends toward the front of the apparatus underneath a pin 170 on one' of the levers 22, which support the tension device 16 of the registering-strip. A spring 171 tends constantly to pull the catch 166 away from the notch in the disk 164. If by accident the registering-strip should be torn, the ten sion device 16 would fall by its own weight and by means of the pin cause the lever 169 to oscillate in such a way as to bring the catch 166 into contact with the periphery of the disk 164, so as to engage at the end of the revolution of the cam-shaft 13 in the notch 165 to prevent the shaft 13 from being operated until the registering-strip has been put right. The cam-shaft 13 is also provided with a ratchet-wheel 172 in engagement with a spring-catch 173, so that the shaft 13 can be rotated only in the direction indicated by the arrows in the drawings. Eachof the detents 2 for holding the composing-wheels in position is provided with a notch 174, with which the catch 4 engages when the detent 2 cannot reach the bottom of its notch 71 for the purpose of stopping the operation of the apparatus.

From what has been said it will be seen that the cam-shaft 13 is provided with all the cams required for the operation of the appa- 'ICC \ is effected by means of a crank 175, loosely mounted on a fixed shaft 9 and rigidly secured to a toothed wheel 176, which engages with acorresponding wheel 177, keyed on the cam-shaft 13. A suitable device is used for preventing the shaft 13 from making more than one revolution for each operation of the apparatus.

Before passing to the operation of the apparatus it will be well to recapitulate very briefly the nature and function of the several cams mounted on the shaft 13. These cams number fifteenviz.,the cam 64,which acts on the detents 2 and on the oscillating tables 17, 47, and 48; the disk 87, which, together with the roller 86, carried by the cam 64, acts on the Geneva stop-wheel for the purpose of operating the feed-rolls'75 76 and 77 78 of the double-ticket cardboard strip; the cam 138, which acts on the rings with visible numbers 128 and 129, that retain the indication of the last debit, and causes them to move to zero for the purpose of preparing them to indicate the debit of the current operation; the cam 97, which acts on the adding device and places its wheels in engagement with the composing-wheels for the purpose of causing it to register the debit of the current operation; the two earns 12, which act on the resetting-bar 6, which causes the composing-wheels that have been manipulated by the operator in the current operation to be returned to their original positions and with them the printing-disks 0c and y, which are connected therewith; the six cams 120, each of which operates by a unit a wheel of the adding device on a complete revolution of the wheel of immediately inferior order; the two cams 144 and 146, which act on the adding-lever for the purpose of bringing the wheels of the adding device into engagement with the composing-wheels when it is intended to cause the latter to indicate the total registered and to print it on the record-strip and on a double ticket, and the projection or cam 159, which, in combination with the fixed pin 163, moves the cam 97 and the handle 36, which is connected therewith, to the left after the printing of the total registered and causes the adding device again to register the total. The cam-shaft also carries the notched disk 164, which stops the apparatus when the record-strip breaks, and the ratchetwheel172, which prevents the cam-shaft from rotating in the reverse direction.

I will now explain the operation of the apparatus. All business transactions should be recorded by the apparatus. If a debit is in question, the operator who has charge of the apparatus indicates the amount of this debit by means of the composing-wheels 7c.

For a debit-for example, of 67.30the operator moves the wheelsin question and places them in such a position, Fig. 25, that they show opposite to the transverse bar 1 the number 67.30. The operator also moves the wheel we. so as to place in line with the said number 67.30 one ofseveral lettersfor ex ample, the letter O-eorresponding to the name ofthe salesman. The new position given to the wheels 26 and m is insured, Fig. 21, by the detents 2, corresponding thereto, and the number they form is reproduced opposite to the oscilating tables by the printing-disks 0c and y, which are connected with the composing-wheels and make corresponding'movements, as has been hereinbefore described. When this has been effected, the apparatus is ready to work and the operator has only to cause the cam-shaft 13 to rotate, either by retating the crank 175 through one revolution or by engaging the motor, which, as has already been indicated, must be adapted to be disconnected automatically after a complete revolution of the cam-shaft. The cams 64, 87, 138, 97, 12, and then come into operation successively and produce the following effects: As regards the cams 144, 146, and 159 they rotate without producing any effect for the moment. The cam 64 operates, as has already been mentioned, the shafts 29 and 56 for the purposes of causing, on the one hand, the eccentric catch 4 to act on the detents 2, and thereby to insure the holding of the composing-wheels, Fig. 21, in their new positions, and, on the other hand, of raising simultaneously the oscillating tables 17, 47, and 48, Figs. 20 and 22, toward the printing-disks m and y and the dating and numbering disks 52 and 53. If by accident the composing-wheels have not been properly manipulated by the operatorthat is to say, if the notches h of these wheels are not exactly opposite to the detents 2the eccentric catch 4 cannot bear on the flat portions of the detents 2. On the contrary, the catch 4 enters the notch 174 in the detents 2, which prevents any further movement of the shaft -13 until the composing-wheels have been placed in their proper positions. The raising of the oscillating tables can be effected.

only when this position is correct. During this upward movement the inking-rollers 71, 72, and 73 have been respectively moved over the printing and numbering and dating disks in such a way as to ink the type that are to print and which as regards the printing-disks a; and L reproduce faithfully the statement indicated by the composingwheels. The numbering-disks have been operated by the pawl 74, while the dating-disks remain fixed, since they require to be changed only once a day. Now since the table 17 carries the record strip the latter receives a single impression of the statement from the printing-disks w-for example, of the debit 67.30 followed by the letter Oand it will be seen that the impression is produced on the left-hand portion of the recordstripthat is to say, in the column intended for the debits. At the same time the part of the double-ticket strip carried by the table 48 receives from the printing-disks y a double impression of the statement formed thereby-for example, of the debit 67.30 followed by theletter O while the part of the strip just mentioned carried by the table 47 receives the double impression from the numbering and dating disks, as has been hereinbefore described. The pawl 24, which is drawn back when the table 17 is raised, acts during the descent of the table 17 on the ratchet-wheel 23, so as to cause the feed-roll 18 to rotate and to move the record-strip on the table 17 in such a way that the strip is ready to receive the impression during the next operation of the apparatus. On the other hand, the table 48 on rising releases a spring-lever 178, provided with a blade 179, which engages between adjacent type on the printing-disks y and holds them during the inking of the type that are to print." During printing the notched disk 87 holds the Geneva stop-wheel 85; but when the oscillating tables have been depressed the roller 86, carried by the cam 64:, acts on the wheel 85'and operates the driving mechanism of the two pairs of feed-rolls 75 and 76 and 77 and 78. These rolls therefore move the double-ticket strip, as has been hereinbefore described, and raise at the end of the table 48 the double ticket that has just been printed, and thus place it in a position to be cut. The cam 64 has a slight projection intended to cause aslight supplementary'jlifting of the oscillating tables for the purpose of presenting to the shears 49 the projecting portion of the double-ticket strip and of detaching therefrom the double ticket which has just been printed and which is shown in Fig. 27. At

- the same time as the rolls 75"and 76 and 77 so that the wheels 102 engage with the toothed parts i of the composing wheels and the toothed wheels 123 of the adding device come into engagement with the pinions 125, connected to the rings with visible'figures 128 and 129. When this has been effected, the cams 12 come into operation and by means of the resetting-bar 6 return all the composingwheels into their original positions. By

means of this return movement the adding device is operated and is caused to add the debitfor example, 67.30-to the sum previously registered; but it will be seen that the adding is effected only when the adding device finally returns to its original of the wheels 117 and the train of wheels connected therewith moves the rings provided with visible figures 128 ant 129 in such a way that this d'ebitis reproduced thereby, so that it can be seen and verified by the customer and the operator. When the adding device has been returned to its original position, the composing-wheels are released, together with the rings provided with visible figures. The latter, however, remain in the positions previously imparted to them and retain them until the commencement of the succeeding operation,when they are returned to zero by means of the sector 136, which under the influence of the cam 138 passes from the position shown in Fig. 22 to the original position shown in Fig. 5. v hen it is a question of a credit transaction, the operator manipulates first the handle 36, which he moves toward the right, so as to disengage the composing-wheeln and at the same time to move the registering-strip carriage toward the left for the purpose of bringing the right-hand column, or the column for the credits, under the action of the printing-disks as, Fig. 2 1. The movement of the handle 36 also slides the cam 97 toward the right on the cam-shaft 13 by means of the longitudinal shaft 35, and thereby prevents this cam from acting upon the roller 96. The adding device can consequently no longer be oscillated by the cam 97 on the subsequent rotation of the camshaft13, when the cam 97 will bring its lateral projection 159 against the fixed pin 163,

which will produce toward the end of the revolution of the cam-shaft 13 the backward movement of the cam 97, and consequently return the record-strip carriage and the handle 36 into their original positions, the carriage being thus automatically returned to the proper position for the debits. After having moved the handle 36 to the right, as stated, the operator moves the wheels 70 for the purpose of indicating, as in the case of a debit, the sum in question -for example, 25.65. Furthermore, he operates the one or the other of the composing-wheels m and also the composing-wheel n, which has just been released, for the purpose of placing in the same line as the figures indicating the sum in question the initials of the employee who has effected the transactionfor example, the employee M-and the indication of the nature of this credit-for examplefthe letters Vcr, indieating a credit sale. The transaction, although it is not a payment from the cashbox, must nevertheless be printed on the right-hand portion of the registering-strip, so as not to be registered by the adding device, which registers only the debits. When these preparations have been completed, the operator causes the cam-shaft 13 to make one revolution. This causes the locking of the composing-wheels, the raising of the tables 17, 47, and 48, the printing of the registering-strip and the double-ticket strip, the feeding of the strips, and the return of the com posing-wheels to their original positions in the same manner as for a debit transaction. The difference consists in that the sum indicated bythe composing-wheels is not registered by the adding device, since the action of the cam 97 is suspended, and also in that the printing-disks wprint in the right-hand column of the recordstrip, as shown in Fig. 26. On the other hand, the double ticket produced appears as is indicated in Fig. 28. The rings provided with visible numbers 128 and 129, which are returned to zero, as in the case of a debit, do not receive any movement from the adding device, since it has not beenlbrought into engagement with the composingwheels. At the end of the rotation of the shaft 13 the fixed pin 163 acts on the projection 159 and,

moves toward the left the cam 97,whichcomes again into engagement with the roller 90. At the same time the registering-strip carriage is moved back toward the right, the handle 36 is returned toward the left, and the disk (1 is reengaged by the pin 0. W hen it is desired to stop the recording ofitems and to put the total on the registering-strip, the apparatus acts in the following manner: The composingwheels are not manipulated by the operator. He takes hold of the handle 140 and slides it in the groove 141 in such a way that the forward portion or shutter 115 of the adding-lever, which moves downwardly, Fig. 23, uncovers the opening 113. At the same time the pawl 153, which is connected to the adding lever, engages with the ratchet-wheel 23 and causes it to rotate .by two teeth, so as to move the registering-strip by a distance double that caused by the pawl 24 for the debits and the credits. 0n the other hand, the projection 147 of the adding-lever acts on the roller 148 of the adding device and causes it to oscillate in such a way that its Wheels 102 engage with the toothed portions 1' of the composing-Wheels. Theadding-leverishelddown by the catch 143, which cannot be disengaged by the cam 144 except at the end of the revolution of the cam-shaft 13that is to say, after the total has been printed on the recordstrip. When this has been effected, the operator passes his key through the opening 113 and adjusts it in the hole 109 of the transverse shaft 101, to which he imparts, by means of this key, a rotary movement for the purpose of returning the wheels of the adding device to zero; but since these wheels are in engagement with the composing-Wheels 7c the latter are moved in such a way as to reproduce opposite to the transverse bar 1 the total-for example, 1,47 9.80-regist-ered by the adding device. It will be seen that the key in question can not be withdrawn until it has made a complete revolution,which insures the correctness of the operation. amount has been thus indicated, the operator causes the cam-shaft 13 to make a complete revolution for the purpose of producing the effects mentioned before with regard to the debitsthat is to say, to hold the disks in position and raise the oscillating tables 17, 47, and 48, so that the impression is effected on the registering and the doubleticket strips and that these strips are moved by the desired amount and the composingwheels are returned to their original positions. It will be seen that the return of the composing-wheels is preceded by the disengagement (by the catch 143) of the addinglever, which, however, cannot return to its original position until the key has been removed from the opening 113. The return of the composing-wheels causes the total which has been obtained from the adding device to .be again registered by the adding device.

The record-strip indicates the total in question-for example, 1,479.80, as is shown in Fig. 26. The same is effected in the case of the double ticket shown in Fig. 29. Such is the operation of the registering apparatus in the principalcases that occur.

It will be understood that, if desired, a second adding device may be employed for adding the credit items and for printing the total thereof on the record-stri p and on the double tickets.

Although I have shown and described a carriage for a record-strip, means for shifting said carriage to an adjusted position, and means for returning said carriage to its normal position upon each operation of the machine, I do not claim the same in this application, as that forms the subject of a divisional application filed by me July 17, 1903, Serial No. 166,035.

What I claim is 1. In registering apparatus, the combination with printing mechanism and adding mechanism, of composing-wheels having each within its rim a toothed gear for operating the printing-disks, and having each a portion of its periphery provided with depressions for receiving figures or other characters and adapted to serve for operating it, another portion notched and another portion toothed to operate the adding mechanism, said composingwheels being loosely mounted on a fixed shaftand capable each of independent movement, in combination with detents to act in conjunction with the notched portions of the said wheels.

2. In registering apparatus, a group of composing-Wheels in combinationwith two groups of printing-disks placed one on each side thereof, each printingdisk having characters similar to those on the corresponding composing-Wheel, the disks of one group having When the 

